High school is a time of transition for youth of all ethnic groups, but it is a particularly problematic time for African American youth in the United States. While many studies have evaluated the sense of school belonging ...

Increasingly, educational policies include mandates for school leaders to use data to "drive" their school-level decisions about instructional improvement. Extant research suggests that school leaders are trying to use ...

The purpose of this case study is to gain insight into the academic, athletic and social experiences of specially admitted student-athletes in order to better understand what contributes to their lower academic performance ...

This ethnographic study explores the educational experiences of Chicano/Latino Middle School Males and their emerging racial, ethnic, and gender identities. This study employed Racial/Ethnic Identity Development Theory and ...

This dissertation examines how Washington School in Seattle, Washington, the site of a Deweyan experiment in intercultural democracy, dealt with the challenge to its experiment by the news of the incarceration of its ...

The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the discourses used by White preservice teachers in a dialogue about race with people of color. I used Whiteness theory to frame my observations, which defines Whiteness ...

Research has shown that the threat of negative stereotypes can have pernicious effects on the decision-making thoughts and behaviors for those who are targets (Steele, 2011). When college students and professors subscribe ...

Place-value is an essential concept that is foundational for understanding our number system and for developing procedures for multidigit operations, but there has been limited research into the place-value understanding ...

Adolescents are not meeting the increasingly sophisticated literacy demands of the 21st century. Research shows that students require instruction in middle and high school to successfully navigate and comprehend the range ...

This study investigates gender differences in personal and institutional factors that impact women's advancement to academic leadership roles at research intensive universities. It uses data from a 1993 national collection ...

Colleges and universities are seen as sites for harnessing for the common good the challenges and opportunities associated with diversity. Research supports the link of diversity experiences with a range of individual, ...

This study examined the factors underlying women's persistence in computer science. Fifteen women who received a computer science bachelor's degree from a major research university in the Pacific Northwest were longitudinally ...